#Archaeology31 #point
On many of the Iron Age torcs we've looked at there are lots of little punched dots either in lines or on the top of dummy rivets. Little points.
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On many of the Iron Age torcs we've looked at there are lots of little punched dots either in lines or on the top of dummy rivets. Little points.
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They are around 1mm in diameter and appear to have been made with the same punching tool used to create the linear infilling marks.
So what made these marks? We believe it was a round headed punch, though not entirely spherical, as attested to by the little ripples in the linear punched marks.
@findsorguk database is full of little punches - e.g. this one from Kent KENT-E93BF5 - but as a tool that would have had multiple uses + had a design that wouldn't have changed much over the years, they inevitably have broad dates.
But maybe one of them made the marks above...😊
But maybe one of them made the marks above...😊
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